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My life has done a full 360. I went from sitting home most days bored to death to never having a free moment to myself. It’s been awhile since I posted and I need to if nothing but to blow off stress steam, flowing freely from my ears. I took a job as the executive director of a local very small nonprofit which was to begin the end of April. I’d started training in the Fall since I’m new to running a non-profit. Well my first big test was to be three weeks in February when the current director went on vacation. Well she went and had an accident on her first day of vacation and is now on medical leave until right before she retires! I jumped in and what I began to see was how messed up this non profit was. It was lead with the directors heart instead of as a business, which is has to be in order to survive. So I had to immediately start cutting costs, hunting down things and then reporting them as I saw fit to the board of director’s president. It’s been extremely stressful just doing that but then you throw in what else I have to do and I’m on overload.

Let me tell you about the job and don’t misunderstand I wanted this job…bad. The job pays very very badly so I have to continue all the other jobs I did before. I run what’s called the Children’s Rights Council of NW Ohio, we have a terrible name because it sounds like we are all lawyers, we aren’t even close. What we do is provide the place, security and monitors to observe and take notes on visitations between a parent who has been awarded court ordered supervised visitation with their child(ren) frequently it’s been a long time since they’ve seen each other. We use volunteers to handle sitting in and observing, don’t get me started on volunteers. Any who what you have to take into account is why the court is saying supervised visitation and let your mind wander. Sometimes we get parents who could be your next door neighbors and sometime we get parents who have mental health issues, domestic violence issues, molestation charges, and a vast number of other reasons. That’s the gist of that. The thing is you are usually dealing with very angry people, parents who resent having to bring their children to us for visits and are angry at their exes and we get the other parent who is angry at the ex, being accused of something by the ex etc.. and who probably hasn’t seen their child for months….even years. That’s the hard part. Sometimes I have to do things I don’t want to do, like deny a parent a visit because of bad behavior, to see a parent who seems so good with their child get denied more visitation, a different type of visitation etc… and we see children who are scared, nervous, angry or just sullen because they are 0ld enough they shouldn’t have to be there but it has to be there.

ME ME ME

So, I love this job, I love being busy but I’m not handling time management very well, stress very well, the weird hours I have to work and still not having anyone to share my life with-not that I have time for that either. When I talk to people I swear all I do is talk about me, it’s not because I’m narcissistic it’s because I’m the only thing interesting in my life…in a non narcissistic way, understand? I have no one else to bounce this stuff off of and so everyone who takes the time to talk with me gets a blast of me me me…I apologize for that..you know who you are.

I’m done for now…talking about me…at least here it’s ok- you don’t have to read it(did you make it this far?) and I get to talk about me! Love and smootchies to all!

This has been a bad week. Last week my gynecologist found a lump in my breast and I had to wait until Tues to have tests. All clear no cancer, got the official letter yesterday. That was a good thing. But then attack of the mentally unstable foster mother came. It’s been horrible trying to deal with someone who only has her own interests and agendas. I don’t like conflict which is funny considering the volunteer work I do. Anyway, I’ve also had this lower back pain all week which I have no idea why, I am trying to think what is causing it and I just can’t figure it out.

Working on more jewelry to keep my hands busy and my mind calm. Need to make some money, it’s pretty tight here these days, health insurance take most of the money I have every month and the regular bills take the rest. If you are against the healthcare act you need to speak with someone who is on the other side and ask them why they are for it, it’s never been political we need help. Non work provided insurance is so expensive, you might be surprised.

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